How do I expand the output display to see more columns of a pandas DataFrame?

Question

Is there a way to widen the display of output in either interactive or script-execution mode?

Specifically, I am using the describe() function on a pand

Answer 1

According to the docs for v0.18.0, if you're running on a terminal (ie not iPython notebook, qtconsole or IDLE), it's a 2-liner to have Pandas auto-detect your screen width and adapt on the fly with how many columns it shows:

pd.set_option('display.large_repr', 'truncate')
pd.set_option('display.max_columns', 0)